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Evaluate

Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.

• How to determine which data governance tool best meets your needs

  This buyer's guide provides insights to help you determine if your organization could benefit from data governance software and how to navigate the buying process. Continue Reading

• A buyer's guide to selecting the best data warehouse product

  With several deployment options and product choices, it's difficult to know where to start. This buyer's guide helps you choose the right data warehouse product for your company. Continue Reading

• Sort through types of database management systems before you buy

  The database management system lies at the center of any organization's business activities. It houses the data that pumps life into operations and analytics applications and ensures that it's managed and manipulated securely. But the types of ... Continue Reading

• Apache Spark goes 1.0, looks to improve on MapReduce performance

  The Apache Software Foundation released Version 1.0 of Spark, a processing framework aimed at outpacing MapReduce for machine learning and other uses. Continue Reading

• Big data cloud is changing familiar database tech tune

  New cloud database applications that increasingly fall into the "big-data-intensive" category are shaking up the usual build-or-buy soliloquy. Continue Reading

• Supermarket co-op stocks up on big data platform to help spur sales

  Co-operative Allegiance Retail Services is deploying a cloud-based big data stack to replace a homegrown system that fell short on analytics power.Continue Reading

• Top six data management software stories of 2011

  From the rise of "big data" to office politics hampering MDM projects to Hewlett-Packard giving Neoview the ax, and more, there were plenty of notable data management stories in 2011.Continue Reading